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34 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
216 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2001
201 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2001
201 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2001
175 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2003
175 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2003
184 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2003
225 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2005
102 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2007
105 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 200357 kr
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After decades of downsizing the U.S. military, the newly elected President is faced with the ultimate threat. Iraq and North Korea have suddenly gained possession of land mobile launched ICBM''s; Soviet made SS-22''s. The President starts to mobilize his forces as best he can. The only solution is an ultimate nuclear terror. The U.S. deploys its own land mobile launched ICBM the MX Missile Defense System. The President enlists the help of the Commonwealth of Independent States to augment the U.S. forces in keeping the Iraqi''s and the North Koreans in check. The USS DOOMSDAY, SSBN-2001, is the final say in World War Three. She''s carrying a nuclear arsenal so terrible, that the President finally agrees to put her to sea as a last desperate act to save face with the public. North Korea, calling a press conference, reveals its plans to invade South Korea and threatens to use the Soviet made SS-22''s if anyone tries to stop them. To add to the pressure on the new President, the Iraqis demand to be recognized as a superpower. Find out if the U.S. can hold a two front offensive and succeed.
E-bok
Engelska, 200157 kr
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Terrorism. The mention of the word elicits memories of the 20th century. The terrorist bombing of the Olympics, the bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, the list goes on and on. Until recently, terrorism was restricted to foreign soils. Starting with the bombing of Pan-Am flight 103 and ending with the bombings of the World Trade Center and the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, terrorism has now come to the United States. In the year 2020, the city of Los Angeles is targeted by a terrorist bearing the name Botan. For years, Botans people have infiltrated local, state and federal governments. Botan had his chemical plants make ammonium nitrate, a Class A explosive. Add that to the fact that Botan had purchased abandoned mines in the California area that crosses the San Andreas Fault line. Botan threatens the western United States with a threat letter stating that if his demands are not met, catastrophic consequences will result. Let Girad Clacy take you on an action-packed excursion into law enforcement officers worst nightmare combating a terrorist on their own doorsteps.
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Engelska, 200157 kr
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The sea, with its vast mysterious expanses has long been a source of endless fascination for man. Indeed, in the past piracy has also made a certain claim on our imaginations, with the idea of ruthless individuals roaming the world at will. Bent on murder and mayhem, striking suddenly and then disappear with the flash of an eye into the endless ocean waves. Take the sea, add a dash of modern-day piracy and toss in a horrible superweapon. Now you have the makings of a first rate, action thriller, The Dark, by Girad Clacy. Well versed in seafaring lore, Mr. Clacy has crafted a modern day Treasure Island that can stand up to any of the pirate yarns of yesteryear. With thrills aplenty, this novel will keep its readers on the edge of their seats until the last action-packed page. So ahoy, land-lubbers, heave anchor and set sail on an adventerous voyage into danger-and perhaps disaster.
E-bok
Engelska, 200357 kr
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The future has always been an uncertainty since time began. Mr. Clacy has fashioned a future that has one generation passing into the hands of the next generation. As the founder of the C.W. Gooden Corporation finds out he has an heir to his company, so, to, does the next generation learn lessons of life. The next generation learns that no one lives forever, but when they die, they leave behind a legacy. The next generation is taught such lessons as respect, courtesy and the value of being human. In the future of the C.W. Gooden Corporation, the young Gooden junior discovers that his bio-medical sciences staff is on the verge of the most important breakthrough in technology of the 21st century. A ray of hope for those whose spines have been severed, the Gooden Corporation''s technology makes the impossible possible. To all those people confined to a wheelchair, the Gooden Corporation offers the chance of a lifetime; the ability to walk again and be free of the wheelchair. Mr. Clacy has written a book based off of an experience with his paraplegic neighbor when he was growing up. This is Mr. Clacy''s vision of the future for paraplegics.
E-bok
Engelska, 200357 kr
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During the late 21st Century, humans finally colonized space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, having fulfilled their essential mission of putting humans into space was disbanded. On Earth a new entity was taking shape. They called themselves STARCORE. With a little help from some visitors to Earth, many space vessels are built. One ship, the USS PERFORMANCE, begins to map new space for humankind. In the early part of the 22nd Century, money is now obsolete and everyone, regardless of their skin color, facial features or even their sex, is treated as an equal. Racism and prejudice have been virtually eliminated. Join Captain John Powers, after nearly a decade of war with a race known as the Gardenians, as he lets you come aboard the USS PERFORMANCE. This trilogy covers 20 years of the USS PERFORMANCE''s life. So, ahoy space travelers and board a shuttlecraft at Space Defense Operations Center. Captain Powers hopes to see you soon. For all those people who are space epic fans and want to feel like they are part of the crew, the NCX: Trilogy is a must for you. Find out what future may hold for humankind.
E-bok
Engelska, 200358 kr
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Captain John Powers is on what turns out to be his final charting mission with his ship and STARCORE. When the message comes in that the USS PERFORMANCE is to be decommissioned at the end of the current mission, John starts the process of shutting down the ship. The crew is now given the chance to reflect on what being a member of starship has meant to them along with how the various ship''s missions affected them personally. Find out how a crew deals with the news of being decommissioned and John who puts in his retirement papers for the last time. Join the captain and crew for their last voyage together. However, it is John who finds that he must now face retirement, alone and the ultimate personal crisis of his life. A medical diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, which even 22nd Century medicine cannot cure yet, adds to John''s sense of aloneness. This book tries to capture the spirit and warmth of the human heart.
E-bok
Engelska, 200757 kr
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Michael Pigeon worked at the State Department building in Denver, Colorado and had what everyone thought of as the pretty normal life for a cook. However, one day Gilda Hanson and her friends never returned from an assignment. Michael learned of her fate a few days later. To add insult to injury, the autopsy report said Gilda was between three and four months pregnant. In the days that followed the funeral, Michael vowed he would find out what had happened and what the Special Projects and Operations Taskforce really was all about.The SPOT unit assigned to the State Department facility was now down to one agent, who was on life support at a local hospital. The director of the SPOT unit, Bill Yancy, gives Michael a once in a lifetime opportunity. Michael can find out if he is SPOT material or not and he can find out what happened to Gilda on that fatal assignment. Michael agrees and off to training he goes.Bill watches Michael''s progress with keen interest. Michael is very good about what he does and how he does it. Michael is now introduced to the world of working for the government as a SPOT agent.
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Engelska, 200757 kr
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Michael Pigeon, having just completed an elite school for executive security in Aspen, Colorado, is brought in for his first mission briefing. After the briefing is concluded, he and three other specially chosen SPOT agents set out for the beautiful country of Venezuela.Michael discovers that, although the country is rich and beautiful, someone has placed a bounty on his head. Michael realizes that he and the other SPOT agent''s lives have been sold for blood money. After crashing out at sea in the diplomat''s private plane, Michael wonders if anyone survived the mle at the airstrip.Bill Yancy impresses upon the diplomat that the contract negotiations must continue for the emerald, ruby and sapphire gemstones that are to be used in the U.S. laser industry. However, the diplomat and his wife are concerned about their kids. Michael understands his executive security job is two fold: First, keep himself alive. Second keep the kids alive until they can be reunited with their parents.Once this mission is completed, Michael wants to find out whom it was that sold them all out. Find out if Michael can put a large piece of the puzzle together in this second book of the Code Name Pigeon series.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
104 kr
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Engelska, 200857 kr
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Mike faces off with two of the most controversial legal questions that STARCORE legal, the High Council and the United States Supreme Court have ever had to face! One, are the inhabitants of Space Probe Six, since they were not pro-created in the "normal" sense, really STARCORE citizens? Two, when faced with the legal and ethical questions of euthanasia, which is protected under the 33rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Mike must answer this tough question put to him by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Considering that medical science saved your life by turning you into a cyborg, would you have let someone euthanize you when you were so severely injured? Find out how the Supreme Court deals with this issue and how Mike answers the question. For Mike new personal issues have arisen. Can he convince himself that he really is falling in love again with a prince from French Guiana? How can he, representing STARCORE, convince the inhabitants of Space Probe Six, that the 37th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows same-sex marriages? Find out too how Mike deals with the news that he is going to be forced into medical retirement because he finds out he has only a few more years left to live.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
171 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
158 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 200957 kr
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Captain Powers has one of his own crewmembers locked up in the ships maximum-security brig. Shortly after contacting STARCORE for a replacement Legal Officer, STARCORE asks John to go along with an experiment. John agrees and tells only a few select officers of the new Legal Officers peculiarity. They find out that while CW01 Mike Weatherspoon was stationed aboard the USS SCORPION, as the ships Combat Officer, the ship was destroyed. Only four persons survived the disaster. Mike had pieces of the ships computer blasted into various parts of his body. Although he survived, with the help of modern medical science, many have ostracized him. During his recovery time, he had to be retrained to do a job other than combat. He was trained to be a Legal Officer. Now that his significant other, who never left Mikes side even during the darkest hours of Mikes recovery time, is stationed aboard the USS PERFORMANCE and since the ship needs a Legal Officer, this makes for a dream come true for Mike. Find out how long it will take until someone figures out that Mike isnt quite human, nor is he completely machine, but a melding of the two; a cyborg.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
147 kr
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Engelska, 200957 kr
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Michael Pigeon thought that this mission was going to be routine. Posing as an Austrian journalist for a military weapons identification manual publisher. Arriving in Tripoli, Libya, Michael meets his point of contact, a CIA clandestine service operative who holds the rank of a major in the Libyan Army. The major takes Michael around to the various missile sites for snapshots and general observation. At one site, both of them are shown a clandestine weapons laboratory. The Libyans, during the 1990s, had conducted chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons manufacturing and testing. The nuclear weapons part of the laboratory was equipped with obsolete, unsafe equipment for making nuclear warheads. The major and Michael are exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. Within days, radiation-poisoning symptoms set in, all part of a carefully conceived plan of the Libyan government to get rid of any snoopers. Michael and the major discover that the ship, sitting pier side in Tripoli for some years now, has 450 Al-Fatah II series missiles onboard. Each missile is equipped with a 500-kiloton tactical nuclear warhead. The Libyans are planning a terrorist attack against the U.S. of a level never imagined since September 11, 2001. Find out if Michael and the Major can warn the U.S. in time.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
136 kr
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Engelska, 200957 kr
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While still recovering from the previous missions injuries, Michael receives a phone call instructing him to come to the office. He arrives at the office and is confronted by certain key personnel of the Central Intelligence Agencys departments for Intelligence and Counterterrorism. After being asked a lot of questions about what Michael knew of Bill Yancys current mission he was on, these top personnel inform Michael that Bills plane disappeared. This troubles Michael greatly as he tries to put together all the pieces of the puzzle. Michael is told that aboard the plane, besides Bill and Everett are a small group of United Nations dignitaries trying to establish peace with the various African nations that are known to either support or harbor terrorists. The area of the planes disappearance is a country known to harbor terrorists and other similar groups who would just as soon kill them as to rescue them. Now, Michael must find out where Bill, Everett and the others are located and then extract them out of their internment. Find out if Michael is going to be able to be successful at extracting them all out.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
136 kr
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Engelska, 200957 kr
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Bills investigation request has started to heat things up around the Denver office. Bill is trying to keep Michael from finding out what is going on. He soon realizes this task is going to be impossible. Bill accepts that at some point during this investigation, Michael must find out the truth. The truth being that Agent Stallingsworth and some of his cronies are the ones who, either directly or indirectly, were involved with killing Gilda and her friends just a little over a year ago. Bill finds out the day the investigation ends that Agent Stallingsworth and his cronies have escaped the dragnet put out by the FBI. Now infuriated beyond all reason, Agent Stallingsworth puts the finishing touches on a most diabolical plan. He is going to systematically eliminate all of the remaining SPOT agents until he is down to Michael. Then, he plans on taking Michael out personally to protect himself, his cronies and the Secretary of State. Will Michael go renegade and take the law into his own hands? Find out in this third book of the Code Name Pigeon series by the author Girad Clacy.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
136 kr
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Engelska, 200957 kr
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After parachuting into the jungles of South America in the middle of the night, Michael finds himself in the most bizarre mission of his career. His mission seemed simple enough. Locate and properly identify your assassination target and eliminate said target. Michael, using a friendly contact in the country that he parachuted into a few days before, completes his mission in record time. He finds that on the third day of his mission, while trekking towards the friendly nation to the north of his position, someone sold them both out. After coming under heavy fire, the friendly is killed and now Michael becomes a fugitive. Wanted by bloodthirsty rebel guerrillas for the crime of assassinating their top leader, Michael struggles for survival while he waits for a secretly deployed U.S. Marine Corps Special Forces Unit to pick him up. During his time in the jungle, while running and hiding from the rebel guerrillas, Michael becomes injured. Now, facing multiple threats to both his physical well being and now his own life, Michael must use all his resources in jungle training and survival. Will Michael make it to the friendly nations border alive or will he die? Find out in this exciting book of the Code Name Pigeon series.